About Nina Stibbe
Nina left Leicestershire for London as a teenager and after two years as a nanny she studied Humanities at Thames Polytechnic.
After graduating in 1987, she worked for a while in a Camden frock shop.
In 1990 she began a career in book publishing, working in various departments before becoming a commissioning editor at Routledge.
In 2002 she moved to Cornwall with her partner and children where she now writes, swims and makes bread.
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🎧 📖 excellent book news for those of you who enjoy audiobooks* #FrancisSpufford’s #LightPerpetual is narrated by @ImogenChurch @FaberBooks
*and know that you can’t cheat on your eyes with your ears. https://t.co/NFnvo47OC8 7 Likes
*and know that you can’t cheat on your eyes with your ears. https://t.co/NFnvo47OC8 7 Likes
Got to post this for St David’s Day. It’s been a pretty good weekend for this small, cultured friendly nation. And we are the only British to have a homegrown patron saint. https://t.co/tfkozXJ58p 2 Retweets
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Thank you for kissing my book @caitlinmoran 😘 https://t.co/fhpV1e9wzQ 51 Likes 3 Retweets
It’s time to reveal Caitlin Moran’s wonderful book choices for March!
– Luster @RavenLeilani
– Americanah @ChimamandaReal
– The Pursuit of Love #NancyMitford
– Love, Nina @ninastibbe
– Invisible Women #CarolineCriadoPerez
– Bridget Jones’s Diary #HelenFielding https://t.co/LyRWrvWkdE 2 Retweets
Nina Stibbe Retweeted
– Luster @RavenLeilani
– Americanah @ChimamandaReal
– The Pursuit of Love #NancyMitford
– Love, Nina @ninastibbe
– Invisible Women #CarolineCriadoPerez
– Bridget Jones’s Diary #HelenFielding https://t.co/LyRWrvWkdE 2 Retweets
@yearsofreading @jennyeclair Thank you!
I’d add:
In and Out of the Kitchen (BBC radio series) by Miles Jupp, funny, gentle, and very soothing. 3 Likes
I’d add:
In and Out of the Kitchen (BBC radio series) by Miles Jupp, funny, gentle, and very soothing. 3 Likes
Nina's Blog
The good nanny
My book Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the letters I wrote to my sister when I was a live-in nanny to two boys in the…
Read MoreGoing home for Xmas
First published in Psychologies, January 2014 Until I had children of my own I almost always went home for Xmas to my mum and step-dad’s house…
Read MoreAlmost famous
First published in The Sunday Times, 10th Nov 2013 When I left Leicestershire in the 1980s, to become a nanny in London, the thing that most…
Read MoreNot in front of the children
An edited version of this article was published in The Guardian, 10 November 2013 ‘We’ll have to stop swearing soon’, I said to my friend a few…
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